[Sca-cooks] the Melipone bee, vanilla

[Ana Valdés]

The Vikings made mead of honey and it must be very early in the Middle Ages.
Ana


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
> wrote:

> Bear replied to me with:
> <<< Many bees produce honey, but only the species that form colonies are
> of use
> to humans.  The European honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a prolific producer
> of
> honey and it flourishes in temperate climates, but it is not the only
> producer of honey.  Central and South America, Africa and Australia all had
> honey before the Europeans arrived, but the evidence suggests it was
> gathered from the wild rather than farmed. >>>
>
> Oops. Then it looks like I've been wrong in using honey in the Old
> World/New World food game and telling people honey originated in the Old
> World.
>
> Sigh. Omitting honey means I can no longer work in how honey was used in
> the oldest alcoholic beverage, mead, or compare honey and sugar use or
> about the honey bee die-off. :-( Or that the biggest use of the honeybee is
> in pollinating imported fruits and crops from the Old World and not in
> harvesting honey.
>
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